American History Vocabulary Quiz

What was the agreement that allowed for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

• Missouri Compromise

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Black Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act

Which amendment to the United States Constitution granted African American men the right to vote?

• John Brown’s Raid

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

• Fifteenth Amendment

What were the laws passed in the southern states that restricted the freedom of African Americans?

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Abolition movement

• Black Codes

What law allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States?

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Jim Crow laws

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

Which event in 1859 involved an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in the South?

• Fourteenth Amendment

• John Brown’s Raid

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

What system of agriculture emerged in the South after the Civil War, in which landless workers farmed land in exchange for a share of the crop?

• Compromise of 1850

• Abolition movement

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen’s Bureau

What was the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union?

• Jim Crow laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction

• Kansas Nebraska Act

What law allowed for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery?

• Reconstruction

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Black Codes

What legislative package in 1850 addressed the issue of slavery and its expansion into the western territories?

• Compromise of 1850

• Abolition movement

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Jim Crow laws

What movement sought to end the institution of slavery in the United States?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Abolition movement

• Fugitive Slave Act